Cover strip for the lower edge of a bonded windscreen of a motor car

Abstract

A cover strip to cover over a lower edge of a bonded windscreen oriented in the transverse direction of the vehicle, which is located in the air suction region of a blower, is anchored to the windscreen so as to maintain an interval whereby a duct is formed through which a stream of water being discharged along the windscreen can flow into a water catching tank located beneath the engine hood.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. Cover strip arrangement for the lower edge of a bonded windscreen of a motor car, wherein the cover strip is located in the air suction region of a blower which sucks external air through between an external surface of the windscreen and a rear edge of an engine hood into an air filter located beneath the engine hood, wherein the cover strip is located in the discharge path of a stream of water being discharged along the external surface of the windscreen and is arranged to maintain an interval from the external surface of the windscreen and maintains a sufficient interval from the engine hood for the air suction, and wherein the cover strip is anchorable to the windscreen by means of clips arranged at a mutual interval and forms with the windscreen a passage duct which introduces the stream of water into a water catching tank adjacent to a lower edge of the windscreen. 
     
     
       2. Cover strip arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the cover strip exhibits a greater interval from the windscreen in a water inflow region of the duct than a further downstream region of the duct. 
     
     
       3. Cover strip arrangement according to claim 2, wherein a suction aperture of the air filter is located behind, in the suction direction, and remote from the inflow region of the duct. 
     
     
       4. Cover strip arrangement according to claim 1, wherein laminar filter sections which are shaped onto the cover strip hold up sinking coarse particles from air and water. 
     
     
       5. Cover strip arrangement according to claim 1, wherein pivotable grids, which are articulated along a terminal edge of the engine hood, cover the aperture from the latter as far as the external surface of the windscreen or as far as the cover strip. 
     
     
       6. Cover strip arrangement according to claim 2, wherein laminar filter sections which are shaped onto the cover strip hold up sinking coarse particles from air and water. 
     
     
       7. Cover strip arrangement according to claim 3, wherein laminar filter sections which are shaped onto the cover strip hold up sinking coarse particles from air and water. 
     
     
       8. Cover strip arrangement according to claim 2, wherein pivotable grids, which are articulated along a terminal edge of the engine hood, cover the aperture from the latter as far as the external surface of the windscreen or as far as the cover strip. 
     
     
       9. Cover strip arrangement according to claim 7, wherein pivotable grids, which are articulated along a terminal edge of the engine hood, cover the aperture from the latter as far as the external surface of the windscreen or as far as the cover strip.